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Flashcards by Hayley Slater, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Hayley Slater
almost 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| infiltration | water soaking into the soil from the surface |
| through flow | water moving downhill through the soil layers, generally slow, but flow may concentrate along the line of the roots or soil weakness which form natural pipes in which flow will be much farster |
| groundwater stores | water held below the table in aquifers (natural underground reservoirs) |
| percolation | water moving from the surface layers to deeper layers of rock and soil. |
| evaprotranspiration | the combined process of evaporation and transpiration that result in the loss of water from the leaf. transpiration is the loss of water from the tiny holes in the stomata in the leafs surface. they are often grouped together, |
| interception | plants trap precipitation so it doesnt pass to ground some drip as through flow and some may as stem flow. some may never touch the ground as percipitation mat evaporate from the leafs surface. |
| precipitation | water falling from the sky- rain, sleet, snow, hail |
| ground ewater | water beneath the surface og the ground |
| surface run off | the flowing of water on the surface of the ground, down a slope. |
| transpiration | the water within a plant is released into the atmosphere as vapour. |
| the hydrologivcal cycle | the movement of water vbetween its different formsd |
| water table | the level below whivch the ground is saturated with water. |
| condensation | the process in which water vapour is converted into water |
| evaporation | water changing from a liquid to gas (ewater vapour) |
| ground water fliw | water moving within rocks below the ground |
| channel flow | water moving downhill within rivers |
| depresassion storage | storage of water in hollows and holes in the ground surface to form puddles. |
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